Space selfie

[9] The extra-vehicular activity (EVA) equipment used by astronauts during spacewalks contains a specially designed camera for photography in outer space.

It included two wireless cameras that were ejected out of the spacecraft for the sole purpose of taking "hand free" space selfies.

[6] On June 22, 2007, DARPA's Orbital Express spacecraft captured perhaps the first space selfie by an autonomous robot.

[22] Taken near the end of mission on July 22, 2007, the selfie was intended to capture a family portrait of the two spacecraft in a mated configuration.

The photo has a dark, high-contrast quality to it due to the use of the arm-mounted camera, not intended for general photography, but used to autonomously track and acquire the NEXTSat.

pic.twitter.com/EKNafzYsypIn February 2018, the Opportunity rover used its MER Microscopic Imager to take a selfie to mark 5,000 sols on Mars.

The tool, which uses Airbus satellites, was demonstrated as part of a BBC documentary showing a village of people spelling out the words Act Now on a beach in Bali, with the image captured on camera from space.

Spelfie is primarily aimed at people attending major sports and cultural events but for its second phase of development, the app will extend beyond specific events and allow users to give a specific location anywhere in the world, and be alerted if the satellite is going to pass overhead.

[38] CrunchLabs, founded by YouTuber Mark Rober, plans to offer space selfies as a service via its satellite SatGus.

Customers can upload their selfies, which are then displayed on the satellite's external screen and photographed using an onboard camera with Earth in the background.